White House bans a bunch of major news organisations

Free press advocates are disturbed and furious over the move, announced by Donald Trump’s press secretary Sean Spicer.

As well as the BBC, Spicer barred The Daily Mail and The Guardian from the briefing on Friday, as well as a number of US media organisations of which Trump has been highly critical.

The restrictions were placed shortly after the President gave a speech once again attacking the media as ‘fake news’ and the ‘enemy of the people‘.

After he made these comments, many warned that they had the echoes of a totalitarian dictatorship.

Trump is openly critical of any media outlet that doesn’t give him glowing coverage – including the BBC, which he twice described sarcastically as ‘another beauty’.

The BBC is now urgently seeking clarification from the White House on why exactly its representative was denied access.

‘Our reporting will remain fair and impartial regardless,’ the broadcaster’s Americas bureaux editor Paul Danahar said.

Source: http://metro.co.uk/2017/02/25/white-house-bans-major-news-outlets-from-critical-press-briefing-6471871/